{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3905",
  "lemma": "לָחַץ",
  "transliteration": "lâchats",
  "definition": "properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress",
  "kjv": "afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.",
  "occurrences": 19,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לָחַץ vb. squeeze, press, fig. oppress",
    "Qal",
    "1. squeeze, press",
    "2. oppress",
    "Niph. squeeze oneself"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 3:9",
      "text": "Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 22:20",
      "text": "“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:9",
      "text": "“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 22:25",
      "text": "The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:34",
      "text": "The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 2:18",
      "text": "When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 4:3",
      "text": "The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/4?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 6:9",
      "text": "I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 10:12",
      "text": "The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 10:18",
      "text": "and he said to the children of Israel, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt and I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=18"
    }
  ],
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